Konstantia (Tina) Barmpatsalou was born in Trikala, Greece in 1986. She holds a BSc Diploma in Information Systems Engineering from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering in Karlovassi, Samos and two MSc Degrees (Information Systems Management and Information Security) from the same University. She is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Informatics and Systems in the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. After publishing her MSc Thesis in Information Security, entitled "Mobile Forensics: Revealing the truth from the bytes", supervised by Prof. George Kambourakis and assisted by Prof Dimitrios Damopoulos, she started her PhD in Advanced Topics in Mobile Forensics sth the Unversity of Coimbra, as a member of the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics (LCT), a CISUC research group, supervised by Profs. Edmundo Heitor da Silva Monteiro and Paulo Alexandre Ferreira Simões and assisted by Prof. Tiago Cruz.

Her current research objectives comprise the development of intelligent systems which can predict and make decisions associated to criminal patterns encountered in data acquired by mobile devices. After a successful implementation of Fuzzy Inference Systems, she is tweaking Neuro-Fuzzy Networks in order to profit the most out of their learning capabilities. Her research interests include the domains of Information Security as a whole, Mobile, Network and Cloud Forensics, Intrusion Detection, Machine Learning, Hard and Soft Computing.
Programming Languages (and scripting): Java (+Android), Python, Matlab, .php, C, C++